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General Category => Sales & Auctions => Topic started by: super-se7en (Malc Dudley) on January 30, 2013, 03:23:56 pm
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Nice Vespa 400 on eBay for restoration.Looks fairly complete. Item no 281058109700
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nice little car but is it just me or does the seller sound a little bolshy ? unfortunate i think
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/281058109700;jsessionid=384948A482C2E54D83BB25715318D455?ru=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fsch%2Fi.html%3F_from%3DR40%26_sacat%3D0%26_nkw%3D281058109700%26_rdc%3D1
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I think its just you Richard. Don't blame him for not taking paypal, I have had no end of trouble with them lately.
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Paypal is expensive and the buyer needs to collect the car anyway. Lots of reasons for cash type money, like it is simple and it works, as does getting on with it. Sadly this guy sounds like he has had the same sort of goners I have, who have difficulty in actually buying anything when it comes down to it. The more ways that are created to communicate and pay the more these sorts cannot raise the money or liaise for logistics. Treat them with the short shrift the deserve and hopefully they will go and annoy someone else.
I have just had to seize and resell two items from deposits of 15 months and 3 years respectively, due to no action, no coms, from the other side. No doubt there will be tears before bedtime and they will want their deposits back shortly when they realize they have lost out. Several more outstanding and I cannot, or see, why I should wait any longer, as this stuff is in the way now I am starting to move. That is ignoring the money tied up I cannot use.
Other folk happily do a deal, agree a timely arrangement, and get stuff sorted between us in good order over a few months. No probs.
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its just the way he puts his terms - he could be much more friendly and say the same thing . entitled to say whatever he wants but i find it off putting . but then i am a salesman and we tend to try a more endearing , smarmy , approach when trying to sell something ;D
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I was never a good salesman but subscribe to the Cooper approach of making the customer do some work to get to offer on the goods (non ebay really). It tends to sort out the serious from the tyre kickers. Fine if the item on offer is worth the price. Saves time which you can use doing something more interesting. Conversely when buying being ready to do a deal there and then often wins out as so many sellers have had the time wasters round and cannot believe that someone would turn up and take the car away in one easy movement. Often this was at less than the advertised price, of course. Apparently that made me a dealer. If the cap fits. Certainly trade contacts are much easier to do business with than the public.
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I THINK ITS BECAUSE HES WRITING WITH HIS CAPS LOCK ON. HE CAN'T BE THAT MUCH OF A BAD SORT IF THE ENGINE IS FREE!
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Punctuation, adjectives and grammar are optional extra on Vespas?
You would not want one full of filler would you?